Rendon is unincorporated Tarrant County at its most authentic. Named for Joaquin Rendon, the original Spanish land grant holder, settled as Cross Roads in the 1880s, and still rural enough that neighbors own horses while Mansfield ISD schools and Fort Worth are both 20 minutes away. Thirteen thousand residents chose larger lots, quieter streets, and genuine community over the polished master-planned alternative. They made the right call.
Rendon is unincorporated. No mayor, no city council, no city hall, no city police — and no city line on your tax bill. That last one is worth roughly $3,000 a year against Kennedale on a $500,000 home. Everything good and everything difficult about living here follows from that single fact.
Estate lots, 1+ acre
The most conventional thing Rendon offers: a gated new-construction community on estate-sized acre-plus lots, near Tarver-Rendon Elementary and inside Mansfield ISD. Rare here, because almost nothing else is master-planned.
Larger homes
Roughly one-acre lots with substantial homes, five bedrooms and around 3,500 square feet being typical. The kind of space that costs considerably more inside a city limit.
Two-acre lots
About two acres per lot, marketed squarely on being just outside any city limit, in Mansfield ISD. If the appeal of Rendon is room and no municipal oversight, this is the shape of it.
Varies widely
Cabot Estate and Rendon Forest Addition are among the smaller named additions. Rendon has very few large HOAs, and listings routinely advertise "No HOA" as the selling point it genuinely is here.
$500K to $1M
This is what Rendon actually is. Scattered-lot custom homes, barndominiums and owner-builds on one to seven acres, rather than tract subdivisions. Typical homes run $500,000 to $800,000, acreage properties $900,000 to a million.
From about $200K
Rendon has a genuine entry point that most of this metro no longer does. A three-bedroom can start near $200,000, often in older stock from the 1960s through 1980s, and manufactured housing is a meaningful share of what exists.
To $7M+
The top of this market is land rather than houses. Tracts over 200 acres have listed above seven million, and equestrian-friendly parcels with ponds are normal rather than exotic.
By design
Worth stating plainly. No large-volume national builder runs an active community inside Rendon — no D.R. Horton, Bloomfield, Lennar, HistoryMaker or the rest. They build in the incorporated cities next door. Here it is custom, semi-custom and small gated enclaves.
Swipe or drag sideways to see them all.
This is the strongest financial case of any place covered on this site, so here are the actual numbers. Rendon's combined rate runs about 1.71 percent: Mansfield ISD at 1.1469, Tarrant County at 0.1862, the hospital district at 0.165, the college at 0.1123, the water district at 0.0265 and the emergency services district at 0.0743.
There is no city line, because there is no city. Against the neighbours:
On a $350,000 home you pay about $5,990 — roughly $2,130 less than Kennedale and $1,850 less than Mansfield. On a $500,000 home, about $8,560 — around $3,040 less than Kennedale and $2,640 less than Mansfield.
Over ten years on that $500,000 home, the Kennedale gap alone is thirty thousand dollars. That is the trade you are being offered.
Every service you would expect from a city comes from somewhere else. Policing is the Tarrant County Sheriff, not a local department. Water is Bethesda Water Supply Corporation, a member-owned nonprofit serving over 10,000 members since 1965 — which issued a boil-water notice in August 2024 after an equipment failure. Sewer is mostly private septic, so budget for an inspection and understand a failed system can kill a closing.
Trash is a private subscription rather than a city service. There is no municipal code enforcement and no city zoning, which cuts both ways: nobody tells you what to do with your land, and nobody tells your neighbour either.
And the fire service just changed. The Rendon Volunteer Fire Department, organised in 1954, stopped providing emergency services on 1 April 2026, with Tarrant County Emergency Services District 1 taking over. Ask about response times rather than assuming.
First, schools split three ways. The Census lists Rendon as served by Mansfield, Everman and Burleson school districts. Which one you get is an address question, and the gap between them is not small.
Second, the mail lies. Rendon addresses carry three different ZIP codes — 76028 Burleson, 76140 Fort Worth and 76063 Mansfield — and all three are shared with other cities. So a listing may say Burleson or Fort Worth while sitting in Rendon, and any statistic keyed to a ZIP describes a mix of places.
One more worth knowing: Rendon sits inside Fort Worth's extraterritorial jurisdiction, which means Fort Worth governs subdivision platting here and holds the exclusive right to annex it later. Nearby Garden Acres is now largely inside Fort Worth. No annexation of Rendon is proposed, but the mechanism exists.
Rendon is an unincorporated census designated place, not an incorporated city, and nothing on this page should be read as describing a municipal government, because there is not one. The Census boundary is drawn for statistical purposes and does not match how residents define Rendon or what the postal service puts on an envelope. Neighborhood names come from the Tarrant Appraisal District and listing portals; price ranges, lot sizes and square footages come from listing data as observed and move constantly, so treat them as indicative and ask for a current comparative market analysis. Rendon addresses appear in ZIP codes 76028, 76140 and 76063, all of which are shared with Burleson, Fort Worth and Mansfield respectively, so any figure keyed to a ZIP code is contaminated by neighbouring cities and should be verified parcel by parcel. Tax figures are computed from 2025 adopted rates for a Rendon property in Mansfield ISD and are illustrations rather than quotes, shown before exemptions; rates reset annually and a property in a different school district will differ. The emergency services district levy of about 0.074348 is included because it applies here and is easy to miss when comparing against incorporated cities. Published median values for Rendon range from about $362,600 to $393,945 depending on source, with a trailing twelve-month median sale price reported near $475,000, and median household income is reported between $107,618 and $117,888 across survey years. Population was 13,533 at the 2020 Census with a recent survey estimate near 14,632; a commercial projection of about 16,958 for 2025 is a projection rather than a count. Water service is provided by Bethesda Water Supply Corporation and sewer is predominantly private septic; a septic inspection is strongly recommended and some parcels may fall under a different water provider. The Rendon Volunteer Fire Department ceased providing emergency services on 1 April 2026 with Tarrant County Emergency Services District 1 assuming responsibility; confirm current arrangements and response expectations. Rendon lies within Fort Worth's extraterritorial jurisdiction, which governs subdivision platting and confers the exclusive right of future annexation; no annexation of Rendon was found to be proposed. Confirm school district, water provider, septic status, floodplain and platting authority for any address before acting on it. Bobby Franklin, REALTOR®, TREC #0805459, Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team.
Rendon has no grocery store, no pharmacy, no coffee shop and no downtown. What it has instead is a crossroads, a butcher that has been cutting meat since 1956, and barbecue that people drive across the state for. This is a short list and I am not going to pad it.
5460 E FM 1187, Rendon · 817-478-2277
The original of three locations, and this is the one actually in Rendon. Founded in 2013 by competition pitmaster Jamie Geer, who later took a grand championship on BBQ Pitmasters, with more than forty years of competition history behind the recipes.
Order the Jambo Texan — brisket, bologna, pulled pork, sausage and ribs stacked on Texas toast — or the loaded baked potato. Tuesday through Friday until seven, Saturday until five.
4645 Dick Price Rd, Fort Worth 76140
Same honesty I apply everywhere: the address says Fort Worth, on the edge where Rendon, Kennedale and Fort Worth meet. But it is minutes away and it is extraordinary.
Five Arlington natives opened it around 2020. Texas Monthly named it the number one barbecue joint in Texas in 2021 and ranked it third in 2025, and it holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand. Black Angus brisket over post oak.
Friday to Sunday only, and it sells out. Hours-long queues are normal. Go early or do not go.
12314 Rendon Rd · 817-478-9511
The oldest business in this community and one of the oldest on the entire site. Established 1956. Custom processing of beef, hog, deer, goat and wild game including elk and boar, with hamburger ground and sausage smoked in house.
Beef comes from Vernon, Texas, with no hormones and no additives. Locals will tell you about the elk jerky. Weekdays until six, Saturdays until four.
5658 Rendon Bloodworth Rd · 817-561-1935
In a place where people keep horses and build their own barns, the feed store is the hardware store is the community noticeboard. Independently owned, carrying quality pet food lines, and described by neighbours as the go-to resource for rural projects.
It appears to occupy the address long used by Bailey's Feed & Hardware, which has closed.
5220 E FM 1187
The neighbourhood bar, with dancing and pool, sitting directly on FM 1187. Open until two in the morning, seven days. In a community with no restaurants to speak of, this is where people actually gather.
5595 E FM 1187 at Rendon Bloodworth Rd · 817-561-2570
An independent convenience store and fuel stop at the junction of the two roads that define this place. It is the closest thing Rendon has to a general store, which is fitting, since a general store is how the town started in 1891.
12330 Rendon Rd
For seventy years this was the closest thing Rendon had to a town hall — organised in 1954, and the social anchor of an unincorporated community with no civic buildings.
Note the change honestly: as of 1 April 2026 the department no longer provides emergency services, with Tarrant County Emergency Services District 1 taking over. If you are buying here, ask what that means for response times at your address.
Rendon Rd & Rendon Bloodworth Rd
In unincorporated communities the churches do what a downtown would. Retta Baptist on Rendon Road, Creekwood Church and Walnut Ridge on Rendon Bloodworth, Bible Baptist of Rendon on Rendon New Hope, and Rendon Church of Christ.
Five congregations for about fourteen thousand people, and they are a genuine part of how this community organises itself.
Said plainly. Rendon has no grocery store, no pharmacy, no coffee shop, no bakery, no ice cream shop, no boutique or florist, no farmers market and no independent mechanic that could be confirmed. There is no downtown because there has never been a town.
So you drive. Burleson is five to ten minutes west and is where most Rendon households do their weekly shop. Mansfield is east, Kennedale north, and south Fort Worth is close for anything larger.
That is the honest trade. You are buying land, quiet and a tax bill two thousand dollars lighter — not walkability. If you need a pint of milk at nine in the evening, Rendon will frustrate you. If you want an acre, a workshop and neighbours who mind their own business, this is exactly right.
Verified September 2026, and deliberately short. Roughly six operating independent businesses were confirmed within Rendon proper, alongside the fire department and several churches that function as community anchors, plus one confirmed closure. That is an honest count for an unincorporated community of about fourteen thousand people spread across nearly twenty-five square miles, and no attempt has been made to inflate it. The single biggest research hazard here is geography: Rendon addresses carry Burleson, Fort Worth and Mansfield mailing cities across ZIP codes 76028, 76140 and 76063, so directory searches for Rendon return large numbers of businesses in neighbouring towns. Every entry above was checked against a Rendon-area address, and businesses resolving to Burleson, Mansfield, Crowley or elsewhere were excluded. Goldee's is listed under its actual Fort Worth address rather than claimed as a Rendon business, in the same way it is handled on the Kennedale page. Several details could not be fully confirmed and are flagged rather than guessed: Rendon Feed & Hardware and the closed Bailey's Feed & Hardware share an address, and the succession should be confirmed by phone; Jambo's has appeared at two different numbers on FM 1187, with 5460 the confirmed current address; Rendon Food Mart's current hours and status were not freshly confirmed; and a possible creamery appeared in one listing carousel but could not be verified. Ownership of Jambo's has changed since founding. Business listings were drawn from directory and review platforms and reflect existence and category rather than an audited count; operating status changes quickly in a market this small, so call ahead. Categories stated as absent mean no reliable Rendon source was found, not that something is impossible. Businesses listed are for general local reference and are not endorsements, and I receive no compensation from any business named. Bobby Franklin, REALTOR®, TREC #0805459, Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team.
A Land Grant Nobody Can Document, a Crossroads, Ninety Residents for Thirty Years, and Then Fourteen Thousand
All of this was Peters Colony land, the empresario scheme contracted with the Republic of Texas in 1841. By 1848 it covered nearly two million acres and included the whole of Tarrant County.
A state marker records that about 150 colonist families settled in Tarrant County, most of them American-born farmers of meagre means. The county was established in 1849 and organised in 1850, named for Edward H. Tarrant.
Honest answer: almost nothing about the man is documented, while the land itself is beyond doubt. The Joaquin Rendon Survey, Abstract 1263, is a live legal description in Tarrant County records today, and the county land index names him as its original grantee.
Beyond that the accounts contradict each other. The state handbook says only that the post office was named after the original land grant holder. Mansfield's account calls it "said to be a Spanish land grant." A school history is far more specific, describing a Mexican-American sheepherder granted 4,065 acres in 1837 at the headwaters of Caddo and Walnut Creeks.
Here is the problem with that. A grant dated 1837 would be a Republic of Texas grant, not a Spanish one — the Texas General Land Office was only created that year. So the Spanish story is almost certainly folklore, and Mansfield's own page hedges with "said to be".
The likeliest reading: Rendon was an absentee grantee whose name attached to a survey, not a settler who ever lived here. A neighbouring survey followed exactly that pattern, patented in 1881 to Fort Worth land speculators. No birth, death, census or deed record for the man was found. Much of the colour traces to a single self-published local history from 1971.
Before it was Rendon it was Cross Roads, and the name was literal. The junction that defined it is the same one that defines Rendon today — Rendon Road, Rendon Bloodworth Road, Rendon New Hope Road and what is now FM 1187.
Those were dirt tracks then. FM 1187 was not designated until July 1949, nearly a century later.
The earliest layer of settlement sits just alongside: the Gibson Community, established 1853 when brothers Garrett and James Gibson took 160-acre homesteads. Its cemetery's earliest marked grave is a Gibson grandson who died in 1866.
The Hoppers arrived in 1880, then the Norwoods and Haddocks. In 1891 a post office opened under the name Rendon, with W. L. "Wash" Norwood as first postmaster, running it out of his general store.
That store, opened around 1895, was the whole town: post office, shop and doctor's lodging, with Dr. McNairn boarding there in 1899.
By the mid-1890s Rendon had flour mills, two cotton gins, a blacksmith and a population of twenty-five.
One detail that still shapes life here: Rendon has never had its own ZIP code, and the state almanac currently lists it as having no post office at all. Mail arrives under Burleson, Fort Worth or Mansfield.
Worth clearing up, because it confuses everyone. Retta and Rendon are effectively the same community. Retta was platted between 1905 and 1907 with a railway right of way signed in 1902, ran three cotton gins, and had a flag station where the district's cotton shipped out.
Retta is said to be named for the wife of a railroad supervisor. That is why Retta Baptist Church, Retta Road and Retta Mansfield Road all sit in the middle of what everyone calls Rendon.
The economy was cotton, corn and syrup, including the Maxwell Syrup Mill. After the war more arrived: Earl Jones's auto garage, a cafe called Lindy's run by Lendon and Gwen Sheffield, a feed store, a skating rink and Marvin Berry's television repair shop.
On 23 October 1897 Norwood sold three acres for a schoolhouse and graveyard, though the oldest stone on that ground already dated to 1882. A school ran there from 1897 until the district consolidated into Mansfield ISD in 1967.
A new Tarver-Rendon Elementary was built between 1969 and 1971, named as a memorial to Ray F. Tarver — and the reason is oddly specific. Ray's brother Holland, who worked for the electric company, donated all the school's electrical equipment and the labour to install it.
The campus moved to Retta Mansfield Road in 2012 and now runs as an agricultural leadership school of about 500 students.
One honest gap: this was rural Tarrant County during segregation, and no record of a separate school for Black students in Rendon was found in any accessible source. That is an absence of documentation, not proof none existed.
The original union church, which had hosted both Baptist and Methodist services, disbanded in 1914. In that same year a Baptist congregation organised — today's Retta Baptist Church, on Rendon Road since.
Early religious life included twenty-day summer singing schools and congregations spanning Baptist, Methodist, Church of Christ and Assembly of God.
In a place with no town hall, no library and no civic buildings, the churches have carried the community's public life for more than a century — and, as the events section shows, they still do.
In rural unincorporated places the burial ground is the archive. Rendon Cemetery sits at Rendon Road and FM 1187 with burials reaching back to the 1870s, and its association organised at Retta Baptist Church in May 1955.
A 1981 count recorded 435 marked graves and 45 unidentified. A granite veterans monument there was driven by the late Barbara Maxwell of the cemetery association.
Also here: Walnut Creek Cemetery east on FM 1187, and Gibson Cemetery, which carries a 1983 state historical marker — of its seventy-three marked graves, all but two are Gibson relatives.
Notably, that Gibson marker is the only state historical marker in the area. There is none for Rendon itself and none for Joaquin Rendon.
Neighbours met on 1 July 1954 to organise a volunteer fire department. The men fought fires; the women formed an auxiliary that hauled water, drove trucks and ran the fund drives. For seven decades it was the closest thing this community had to a town hall.
That ended this year. On 1 April 2026 the department was dissolved and its contract with the county emergency services district ended, with the district assuming the service area and moving to full-time staffing. The stations became county stations.
It was not only Rendon. Briar-Reno dissolved in October 2025 and Cresson's contract ended that December, as a district now covering 183 square miles and more than 50,000 people outgrew the volunteer model.
For a community whose gatherings ran through that fire hall, this is a real loss of civic infrastructure, and it happened months ago rather than years.
This is the number that tells the story. In 1950 Rendon had eighty residents and three businesses. Through the whole of the 1970s and 1980s it held steady at about ninety people.
Then: 7,658 in 1990. 9,022 in 2000. 12,552 in 2010. 13,533 in 2020, with recent estimates near 14,600.
Interstate 35W and Fort Worth's southward sprawl did it. A farming settlement of ninety people became an exurb of fourteen thousand in a single generation, without ever becoming a town.
Why it never incorporated is straightforward: residents get county services without paying a city tax, and Fort Worth's extraterritorial jurisdiction over contiguous unincorporated land makes self-incorporation legally difficult.
The cautionary precedent is next door. Garden Acres was its own unincorporated community and is now largely inside Fort Worth. Annexation, rather than incorporation, is the likelier long-run path for land at the metro's edge.
Compiled from the Texas State Historical Association Handbook of Texas, the Texas Almanac, the City of Mansfield's Rendon-Retta history pages, Mansfield ISD, the Tarrant Appraisal District, a transcription of the Tarrant County land grant and abstract index, the Texas Historical Commission marker record and the Historical Marker Database, Find a Grave and BillionGraves, Tarrant County Emergency Services District records and the Rendon Fire Department's own notices. Rendon is an unincorporated community and its recorded history is correspondingly thin; much of the local detail traces to a single self-published local history from 1971, and where that is the only source it should be treated as tradition rather than established fact. The accounts of Joaquin Rendon conflict directly and are presented rather than resolved: the state handbook describes only an original land grant holder, the City of Mansfield describes a Spanish-Mexican resident and a grant "said to be" Spanish, and a school history describes a Mexican-American sheepherder granted 4,065 acres in 1837 at the headwaters of Caddo and Walnut Creeks. Those cannot all be right, because a grant dated 1837 would be a Republic of Texas grant rather than a Spanish one, the General Land Office having been created that year. The acreage, date and legal class of the grant could not be confirmed in primary land office records, and no birth, death, census, residency or deed record for the individual was located. What is confirmed is that the Joaquin Rendon Survey, Abstract 1263, exists in current county records and names him as original grantee. No state historical marker exists for the Rendon community or for Joaquin Rendon; the Gibson Cemetery marker is the nearest. No record of a segregation-era school for Black students in Rendon was found in accessible sources, which is an absence of documentation rather than evidence none existed, and no significant tornado, flood or major fire specific to Rendon was documented. Founding dates for several local congregations could not be independently confirmed. Because Rendon addresses carry Burleson, Fort Worth and Mansfield mailing cities, historical organisations and sites genuinely in Rendon are frequently recorded under a neighbouring city's name, and the surname Rendon heavily contaminates archival searches; every item above was checked against Tarrant County, Texas. Bobby Franklin, REALTOR®, TREC #0805459, Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team.
Two. Both Run by a Church. Here Is the Honest Calendar.
Every other place on this site has a city that throws festivals. Rendon has no city, and so it has almost no public events. That is not a gap in the research. It is the finding.
No parade. No founders day. No Fourth of July. No farmers market. No "Rendon Day" has ever existed as far as any accessible record shows. What exists instead is a church on Rendon Road that has been holding the community together since 1914 — and a drive to Mansfield or Burleson for everything else.
The single most established annual public gathering actually in Rendon, and the closest thing this community has to a town event. Bounce houses, games, face painting, a hay ride, a box maze, puppets and concessions, on Halloween evening at the church that organised here in 1914.
Note the address quirk that runs through everything about this place: the church lists a Burleson mailing address, but it sits in the heart of Rendon. Do not let the envelope tell you where you are.
In a community with no park department, no library and no civic buildings, this is where families with young children actually meet each other.
A fall vendor and craft market at the same church — small businesses, handmade goods, jewellery and apparel. The other half of Rendon's entire public calendar.
Not festivals, but genuinely the thing that brings people here from across the state. Jambo's on FM 1187 is in Rendon; Goldee's, Michelin-listed and once ranked number one in Texas, carries a Fort Worth address nearby.
No recurring anniversary event or annual festival was verified at either. They are destinations rather than dates on a calendar. Goldee's runs Friday to Sunday and sells out, so treat a visit as the event.
Beyond the two annual events, the churches carry the ongoing community calendar. Walnut Ridge runs a West Campus on Rendon Bloodworth Road serving Burleson, Kennedale, Mansfield and Rendon, with student ministry and periodic outreach.
Worth knowing because it changed the calendar months ago. The volunteer fire department, organised in 1954, ran community fund drives and a seasonal toy drive, and its auxiliary had been fundraising since the fifties.
The department was dissolved on 1 April 2026 when its contract with the county emergency services district ended and the district assumed the service area with full-time staffing.
Whether the county will continue any community-facing gatherings is not yet clear. For a place whose civic life ran through that fire hall, this is a genuine change and not a small one.
The one your family will actually plan around. The world's only St Patrick's Pickle Parade and Palooza, in historic downtown Mansfield each March, plus Music Alley, Third Thursdays and seasonal markets.
The mailing city for much of Rendon, and where most households do their shopping. A full city events slate including a Hispanic Heritage Festival in late September, city festivals and markets.
Kennedale is the nearest small-town civic life, with a December Hometown Christmas that includes its only fireworks of the year. Fort Worth, twenty minutes north, carries the full metro calendar.
Stated plainly, because a buyer moving from a suburb will feel the difference. No Rendon Day, no founders day, no homecoming — past or present. No Fourth of July event. No Easter egg hunt, Juneteenth or Martin Luther King observance. No farmers market. No community association festival.
And despite a genuinely rural setting and a school built around agricultural leadership, no local 4-H or FFA show, rodeo, tractor pull or gun club event could be verified as a public annual gathering.
The trade is the same one the tax bill offers. You give up a town's civic calendar and you keep about two thousand dollars a year. If your family wants a Fourth of July parade down your own main street, Rendon will disappoint you — there is no main street. If you want land, quiet and a ten-minute drive to somebody else's festival, this works.
Rendon is an unincorporated community with no municipal government, no parks department and no civic buildings, so it produces essentially no public events of its own; that is a structural fact rather than an oversight in this research. Dates shift annually and several items could not be independently verified, so confirm with the organising church or venue before planning around anything here. The two recurring events identified, both run by Retta Baptist Church, are the only confirmed annual public gatherings physically within Rendon; their timing is drawn from recent listings and may change. The Rendon Volunteer Fire Department, organised in 1954, was dissolved on 1 April 2026 when its contract with Tarrant County Emergency Services District 1 ended and the district assumed the service area; whether any community-facing events it historically ran will continue under county operation is not established. Statements that something does not exist mean no reliable Rendon source was found rather than that it is impossible; in particular no Rendon Day, founders day or homecoming, no Independence Day, Easter, Juneteenth or Martin Luther King Day event, no farmers market, no community or homeowners association festival, and no local 4-H, FFA, rodeo, tractor pull or gun club public event could be documented. No recurring anniversary or festival event was verified at either barbecue restaurant, which are destinations rather than dated events. Events listed under Mansfield, Burleson, Kennedale and Fort Worth are explicitly outside Rendon and are included so a buyer understands what a realistic local calendar looks like; confirm those with the relevant city. Because Rendon addresses carry Burleson, Fort Worth and Mansfield mailing cities across three shared ZIP codes, organisations genuinely in Rendon are frequently listed under a neighbouring city's name and events in neighbouring cities are frequently returned in searches for Rendon; every item above was checked against a Rendon-area location, and the common surname Rendon contaminates searches further. Bobby Franklin, REALTOR®, TREC #0805459, Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team.
What to know about Rendon schools:
The part most buyers miss: the district sets your tax rate as well as your schools, and the school line is about two thirds of a Rendon tax bill. Mansfield ISD is 1.1469, Everman 1.2268, Burleson 1.2552.
So on a $500,000 home, a Burleson-zoned house pays roughly $542 a year more in school tax than a Mansfield-zoned one — for schools that rate about the same. And an Everman-zoned house pays about $400 more than Mansfield for a district rated a full grade lower.
Said plainly: the eastern, Mansfield-zoned part of Rendon gives you the best schools and the lowest school tax at the same time. That is a rare alignment and it is worth knowing before you pick a street.
One example of how fine the line is: Oak Grove Road itself crosses a district boundary. Two elementary schools sit on that road in two different districts.
Verify before you offer. Run the exact address through all three district lookup tools, then confirm by phone. A Burleson, Fort Worth or Mansfield mailing address tells you nothing about which district you are in.
Want the full breakdown? Read our complete Rendon schools guide →
Rendon has no school district of its own. Mansfield ISD covers the east, Burleson ISD the south, Everman ISD the northwest edge — and that single fact sets your child's high school and about two thirds of your tax bill at once. Here is the good news: the strongest district is also the cheapest one.
6065 Retta Mansfield Rd
The only campus carrying the Rendon name, and it is unusual. Officially the Tarver-Rendon School of Agricultural Leadership, it works agriculture into daily classroom instruction and runs a junior FFA programme.
Built between 1969 and 1971 and named for Ray F. Tarver, it moved to the Retta Mansfield Road site in 2012. The Rendon school district consolidated into Mansfield ISD back in 1967.
An ag-focused campus makes sense in a community of acreage and barndominiums in a way it would not in a master-planned suburb.
1280 FM 1187, Mansfield
The intermediate step in Mansfield's four-band structure, on the same FM 1187 that runs through Rendon.
2491 Gertie Barrett Rd
Grades seven and eight before the high school. Mansfield runs elementary, intermediate, middle and high as four separate bands.
1263 N Main St, Mansfield
Mansfield has eight high schools. This is the one Rendon students attend. Reported averages run around 1150 on the SAT and 25 on the ACT, with academic decathlon, JROTC and journalism.
Honest correction to something you may read elsewhere on this site: in the most recent release seven of Mansfield's eight high schools rated A, and Legacy rated B. Still strong, but not the blanket A.
Mansfield students also reach the Ben Barber Innovation Academy for career and technical programmes and the Frontier High School STEM programme, ranked 33rd nationally, plus an early college high school.
12000 Oak Grove Rd
The anchor campus for southern Rendon. Note the address carefully — the number on Oak Grove Road is what tells you which district you are in.
Burleson ISD
The middle school step for southern Rendon before Centennial. Burleson runs a three-band structure rather than Mansfield's four.
201 S Hurst Rd, Burleson
A solid school in a district rated B. Across Burleson ISD, graduation runs about 94 percent with a one percent dropout rate, and reported averages near 1074 on the SAT.
Burleson's specialty options are genuinely good: a collegiate high school ranked around 34th in Texas, a game development and design school, a STEAM academy and an environmental science academy.
The catch is the money. Burleson ISD adopted the highest school rate of the three at 1.2552, raised in September 2025.
8875 Oak Grove Rd
Everman concentrates all pre-K and kindergarten at a single districtwide campus rather than zoning it. Same road as the Burleson elementary above, different district.
1000 Race St, Everman
Said plainly, because a buyer deserves it. Everman ISD is rated a full grade below the other two, with reported averages near 836 on the SAT and 13.8 on the ACT, against roughly 1074 and 1150 in the neighbouring districts.
Context that matters rather than excuses it: Everman serves a student body that is about 90 percent economically disadvantaged, which is a materially harder job than either neighbour faces.
Graduation still runs about 90.7 percent, but advanced placement participation is 5.6 percent against 24.2 percent statewide. The district runs a STEM academy and an academy high school, and a partnership takes over two campuses from 2026-27.
The financial sting: Everman also taxes higher than Mansfield at 1.2268, after a bond raised its debt rate. So an Everman-zoned Rendon home pays more for a lower-rated district.
If you take nothing else from this page, take this. Oak Grove Road crosses a district boundary, and there is an elementary school on either side of it in a different district.
The 8875 block of Oak Grove Road is Everman ISD. The 12000 block is Burleson ISD. Same road. Different district, different high school, different tax rate.
That is why the mailing address tells you nothing. A Rendon home can read Burleson, Fort Worth or Mansfield on the envelope and be in any of the three districts. Verify the parcel, not the postcode.
This is unusual enough to state directly. School tax is about two thirds of a Rendon bill, and the three districts do not charge the same.
On a $400,000 home, before exemptions: Mansfield ISD about $4,588, Everman about $4,907, Burleson about $5,021. On a $500,000 home: about $5,734, $6,134 and $6,276.
Read what that means. A Burleson-zoned house pays roughly $542 a year more than a Mansfield-zoned one on a $500,000 home, for schools that rate about the same. An Everman-zoned house pays about $400 more than Mansfield, for a district rated a full grade lower.
So the eastern, Mansfield-zoned part of Rendon wins on both counts at once. That alignment is rare and it should shape which streets you look at.
Four steps, in order, before you write an offer.
One: run the exact address through all three district tools, because you will not know which applies until one returns a result — Mansfield's Find My Bus, Everman's SchoolSite Locator, Burleson's Find My School. Two: confirm by phone with whichever district the tool indicates and ask for the assigned campus at every grade band.
Three: pull the parcel on the Tarrant Appraisal District and read the taxing units, which tells you the school rate you will actually pay. Four: if you have young children on an acreage lot, ask the transportation department how far the nearest bus stop is. This is nearly twenty-five square miles of large lots, and ride times can be long.
Three subdivisions could not be pinned to a district in research and must be checked individually: Autumn Hill Estates, Cabot Estate and Rendon Forest Addition. Retta Oaks Ranch and Eagle's Estates are confirmed Mansfield ISD.
Because the district is decided by geography rather than choice, transfer policy carries unusual weight in Rendon. A family zoned to one district generally cannot simply attend another's schools without an approved inter-district transfer, granted at the receiving district's discretion and often without transportation.
If you are considering a home in a district you would rather not be in, call the receiving district's transfer office before you buy, not after. Ask about space, programme eligibility, any tuition and whether busing is included.
Alternatives are thin nearby: no private or parochial school was confirmed inside Rendon, and no charter campus either. The nearest college is Tarrant County College Southeast in Arlington, and all three districts offer dual credit.
Accountability ratings are intentionally not shown on the campus cards. State letter grades change annually and a single year rarely reflects what a campus is like; district-level results are described above for context, including weaker ones, because a Rendon buyer is effectively choosing a district by choosing a street and deserves the real comparison. For current ratings use TXschools.gov. Rendon is an unincorporated community served by three independent school districts and has none of its own; district assignment is determined by parcel and must be verified by address through each district's official locator, since the mailing city and ZIP code — Burleson 76028, Fort Worth 76140 or Mansfield 76063 — indicate nothing about which district applies. No published source gives a precise street-by-street boundary for every road in Rendon; the directional description here is derived from campus locations and district service statements, and exact determinations require the district tools or county mapping. The share of Rendon housing falling in each district is an estimate rather than a measured figure. Several items are flagged rather than guessed: attendance for Autumn Hill Estates, Cabot Estate and Rendon Forest Addition could not be confirmed to a district; the Everman elementary zone serving the Rendon-adjacent area was not definitively confirmed; and sources list two different names for the principal at Tarver-Rendon, suggesting a recent transition. Earlier material on this site describing all eight Mansfield high schools as rated A reflects an earlier year; the most recent release shows seven of eight at A with Legacy, the Rendon feeder, at B. Tax figures use adopted school district rates of 1.1469 for Mansfield ISD, 1.2268 for Everman ISD and 1.2552 for Burleson ISD, are shown before the homestead exemption which reduces all three proportionally, and are illustrations rather than quotes; rates reset annually and one Tarrant database entry showed a conflicting figure for Everman ISD, so verify with the appraisal district. Enrollment figures vary by source and year. No private or parochial school and no public charter campus was confirmed physically within Rendon. Inter-district transfer is granted at the receiving district's discretion and is not guaranteed. School information is provided for general reference only and is not a recommendation regarding any school, district, neighbourhood or property. Bobby Franklin, REALTOR®, TREC #0805459, Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team.
Median Sales Price
What Rendon homes sold for each month. Read the caution beside it first, because this is the smallest and most varied market covered on this site and the median genuinely cannot be trusted.
Two problems at once. Only eight to twelve homes close a month, and the stock runs from manufactured homes near $137,000 to acreage past a million. One published median recently read up 31 percent year over year. That is arithmetic, not a market.
Published figures for Rendon currently span roughly $362,000 to $1.39 million depending on source and method. None of them is your comp. Pricing here is done off genuinely comparable land and improvements, or not at all.
Texas is a non-disclosure state, so portal prices are models. This is MLS. But in a market this thin and this varied, insist on the actual comparable sales rather than any citywide line.
Days on market describes how the market behaved rather than which house happened to sell, so it survives a small sample far better than a price median. Recent readings have run around 64 to 87 days — slow by metro standards, and normal for acreage.
Price for the timeline honestly. A Rendon listing is a two to three month proposition, not two to three weeks, and a seller who panics at day thirty usually leaves money behind. Plan the marketing for the full window.
Longer days on market is leverage. A property well past the median here has usually been sitting through several quiet weekends, and those sellers negotiate.
Rendon showings are different. Nobody drives out here casually — a buyer who makes the trip has already decided they want land and no city. So a low showings count often means qualified interest rather than weak interest.
Plenty of showings with no offer usually points at something specific and fixable — the drive, the road condition, the septic, the outbuildings. Few showings points at price or at reach. Different problems, different fixes.
Read it against days on market. High on both means the leverage is yours. And out here, be ready to move on the right property, because genuinely comparable acreage does not come along monthly.
Rendon closes roughly eight to twelve homes a month across nearly twenty-five square miles. That is the thinnest volume covered on this site, and it is why every other chart here needs a caveat.
Thin volume cuts both ways, and here it mostly favours you. You may be the only comparable property on the market in your segment for months — which is real pricing power if you have the patience to wait for the right buyer.
Expect to wait. At this volume the right acreage may simply not be listed this month, which is an argument for being fully approved and ready rather than shopping casually. The good ones here go to whoever is prepared.
Charts supplied by NTREIS via 10K Research and Marketing and update automatically. Data reflects residential activity reported to the MLS and may be revised as late-reported sales come in. Rendon is the smallest and most heterogeneous market covered on this site and its monthly figures should be read accordingly: closings have run at roughly eight to twelve homes a month across nearly twenty-five square miles, which is not enough transactions for a median to be statistically reliable. The variety compounds the problem. About 15.5 percent of Rendon's roughly 5,350 housing units are manufactured or mobile homes reported at an average value near $137,232, in the same community as acreage tracts listing above a million dollars and land over 200 acres listing past seven million; no single median can describe both segments. Published value figures for Rendon currently span roughly $362,600 for the Census median of owner-occupied homes to $1.39 million for a median list price, with one reported median sale price of $674,596 shown up 31 percent year over year — a swing that reflects sample size and mix rather than genuine appreciation of that magnitude. Median days on market has recently run about 64 to 87 days. Rendon is an unincorporated census designated place with no city government, and its addresses carry Burleson, Fort Worth and Mansfield mailing cities across three shared ZIP codes, so any figure keyed to a ZIP code describes a mixture of places rather than Rendon. These charts do not separate acreage, manufactured housing and conventional homes, and that breakdown is not published. Rendon has no Public Improvement District and no Municipal Utility District, and a combined tax rate near 1.71 percent with no city component, though the school portion varies because the community is split across three school districts. Most properties rely on private septic and water is supplied by a member-owned corporation, both of which affect value and are not reflected in any median. Market statistics describe the area as a whole and are no substitute for a comparative market analysis on a specific property, which matters more in Rendon than in any other market on this site. Texas is a non-disclosure state, so publicly available sale prices elsewhere are estimates rather than recorded figures. Bobby Franklin, REALTOR®, TREC #0805459, Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team.
Pick a purchase year and the price fills in. If you own here, type over it with what you actually paid. This calculator deliberately ignores every listing-portal median for Rendon, and the first note below explains exactly why — it matters more here than anywhere else on this site.
Bought here? Tap the number and enter what you paid.
Federal house price index growth, indexed to the purchase year, where the purchase year equals 100.
Rendon is unincorporated, so the big portals cover it badly, and the numbers they do publish are unusable. Look at the spread. One site reported a median sale price of $674,596, up 31 percent in a year. Another shows a median asking price near $700,000. A third puts the median listing at $1.39 million.
None of those describe the house you would actually buy. Rendon closes roughly eight to twelve homes a month, and a 31 percent annual swing on that volume is a sample-size artefact, not a market.
So this calculator anchors on the Census Bureau's median value for owner-occupied homes in Rendon, $362,600 — the one figure produced specifically for this community rather than scraped from listings. It rose from $328,100 in the prior survey.
First: about one home in six here is manufactured housing — 829 of roughly 5,350 units — with an average value near $137,000, sitting in the same community as acreage tracts listing past a million. No single median can describe both. Take the number above as a starting point, not as your house.
Second, and this is a genuine advantage: Rendon appears to be USDA eligible. Kennedale is not. Neighbouring incorporated cities mostly are not. That means zero-down financing with no mortgage insurance may be available here, which is why this calculator offers a nought percent down option that the others do not.
Eligibility is parcel-specific and income-capped, so verify the exact address on the USDA map and confirm the income limit with a lender before you count on it.
Growth rates are the FHFA All-Transactions House Price Index, annual values 2009 through 2024: Tarrant County, Texas (FRED series ATNHPIUS48439A), the State of Texas (TXSTHPI) and the United States (USSTHPI). State and national figures are annual averages of the four published quarters. The slider ends at 2024 because that is the most recent year the county series has published, while the state and national series now run into 2026. No Rendon-specific house price index exists, and no stable Zillow Home Value Index is published for Rendon because it is an unincorporated census designated place rather than a city; the county index is used as the best available proxy and is explicitly a county figure, not a Rendon one. The prefilled dollar figures are derived, not published: they are calculated by applying the Tarrant County index to an anchor of $362,600, the United States Census Bureau American Community Survey median value for owner-occupied housing units in Rendon CDP for 2020 through 2024, with a margin of error of plus or minus $31,857, up from $328,100 in the 2019 to 2023 survey. Entering your own purchase price replaces the estimate entirely. Listing portal figures for Rendon were deliberately excluded and should not be used as an anchor: recent published figures include a median sale price of $674,596 reported up 31 percent year over year, a median asking price near $700,000 and a median listing price of $1.39 million, none of which describe a typical Rendon home. That spread reflects roughly eight to twelve closings a month across an extremely varied housing stock, with median days on market running about 64 to 87 days. About 15.5 percent of Rendon's roughly 5,350 housing units are manufactured or mobile homes, reported at an average value near $137,232, alongside acreage properties listing above one million dollars; no median can meaningfully describe both segments and the figure here should be treated as a starting point rather than a valuation. Median year built is reported as 1996 in the most recent survey and 1992 in an earlier one. The index is built from conforming loans and excludes jumbo lending and all-cash purchases; with a 2026 conforming limit of $832,750, the acreage and custom-build end of the Rendon market can exceed that limit and is not well described by this index. Equity figures assume a 30-year fixed mortgage at that year's Freddie Mac annual average rate, held to today, with no refinancing, no extra principal and no additional borrowing, and exclude closing costs, property taxes, insurance, maintenance, improvements and selling costs. Rendon has no city property tax and a combined rate near 1.71 percent, but most properties rely on private septic: budget roughly $250 to $650 for an inspection, $700 to $1,500 a year to maintain an aerobic system and $10,000 to $20,000 to replace one, none of which is reflected in these figures. USDA Rural Development eligibility is indicated for Rendon but is parcel-specific and subject to household income limits; verify the exact address on the official USDA eligibility map and confirm limits with an approved lender before relying on zero-down financing. Because Rendon addresses carry Burleson, Fort Worth and Mansfield mailing cities across three shared ZIP codes, any figure keyed to a ZIP code describes a mixture of places and was excluded here. This is an illustration for general reference, not an appraisal, a comparative market analysis, a valuation or investment advice. Past appreciation does not predict future appreciation. Bobby Franklin, REALTOR®, TREC #0805459, Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team.
Kennedale has a major interchange at its own city line. Rendon has none — the nearest interstate access is six to eight miles west. Every drive below starts with a run down a county road before you reach a highway. In exchange you get acreage, no city tax, and a community that ends where the pavement does.
Typical Off-Peak Drive Time
Nearby
Minutes off-peak from Rendon Road at FM 1187.
FM 1187 is the spine and it is not a freeway. It runs east to west through Rendon, reaching Interstate 35W on one side and US 287 in Mansfield on the other.
The numbers that matter: the nearest interstate access is I-35W exit 39, roughly six to eight miles west. The US 287 freeway is a similar distance east. Interstate 20 is nine to twelve miles north.
Everything else is county collector — Rendon Road, Rendon Bloodworth, Rendon New Hope, Dick Price, Oak Grove and Retta Mansfield. Add five to ten minutes to the front of every trip compared with a town that fronts a highway.
A consequence of unincorporated life that nobody mentions until it rains. Local roads here are maintained by Tarrant County, not a city public works department, and only the state routes are maintained by the state.
In practice that means narrower two-lane rural roads, open drainage ditches rather than kerb and gutter, and some interior lanes and private drives that are gravel rather than paved. Maintenance response is generally slower and to a lower standard than an incorporated city's streets.
Drive the road to the house in bad weather before you buy, not just on a dry Saturday afternoon.
Rendon residents average 31.9 minutes to work, against a metro figure of 27.9 and a national 26.4. Only Kennedale is longer at 32.4.
And the reason here is simpler than Kennedale's. Rendon has almost no employment base of its own. The numbers are stark: the community loses about 30 percent of its population during the working day, and only about 14 percent of working residents both live and work here.
Compare that with Kennedale, which imports workers to its factories. Rendon is a bedroom community in the fullest sense — nearly everyone drives out. About 78 percent drive alone, 12.5 percent work from home, which is high and rising, and 3.6 percent travel more than ninety minutes each way.
Rendon has no public transit of any kind. No bus, no rail, no on-demand service, no DART, no Trinity Metro.
The reason is structural rather than geographic. Transit here is funded by member cities, and Rendon has no city to fund it. Nearby Crowley and Everman were dropped from an on-demand service when those cities declined to pay for it — and Rendon was never in the service area at all.
Budget a vehicle per driver, and think carefully about teenagers and ageing parents. There is no fallback here.
Worth stating clearly because the headline sounds alarming. The volunteer fire department was dissolved on 1 April 2026 — but what replaced it is stronger.
Tarrant County Emergency Services District 1 took over directly, converting the Rendon station to full-time professional staffing as county station 770, and placing an additional ambulance here to strengthen southern Tarrant coverage.
Being realistic: this is nearly twenty-five square miles of acreage, so response to an interior parcel will never match a dense suburb. But moving from volunteers to full-time crews is a genuine improvement for a buyer, not a loss.
Two state projects matter here, and neither is in Rendon itself. The Southeast Connector is rebuilding about sixteen miles of I-20, I-820 and US 287 at a cost near $2.3 billion, with substantial completion targeted for February 2028. That is your route east toward Arlington and Dallas.
Separately, the state has planned improvements on I-35W running south through the Rendon Crowley Road area — the interstate segment nearest your western access point.
So the two roads Rendon depends on are both under long-term work. Expect friction through about 2028, then better.
Drive times are off-peak estimates derived from route geometry and corroborated against third-party distance services rather than measured with live traffic data, taken from the junction of Rendon Road and FM 1187, and should be treated as accurate to within about five minutes; they vary with traffic, weather, construction and your exact starting point, and every trip from Rendon begins on county arterials before reaching highway access, which is why times run longer than the straight-line distance suggests. Verify against a live map before relying on any single figure. Rush hour figures are wider estimates modelled from typical metro congestion patterns rather than individually timed; downtown Fort Worth runs roughly 35 to 45 minutes at peak in both directions and downtown Dallas roughly 55 to 70 inbound and 60 to 75 outbound. Distances to interstate access are stated as ranges of six to eight miles to Interstate 35W and a similar distance to the US 287 freeway, and should be measured precisely for a specific address. Commuting statistics are Census American Community Survey estimates for Rendon CDP against a national mean travel time of 26.4 minutes and a Dallas Fort Worth Arlington metro figure of 27.9. Daytime population and live-and-work figures are drawn from an older survey vintage and are directionally reliable rather than exact. Road maintenance descriptions reflect the general standard applying to unincorporated county roads rather than an assessment of any specific road; condition varies considerably and the road serving a particular property should be inspected directly, including in wet weather. Transit status reflects that Rendon is unincorporated, has no member city to fund service and is not within any transit authority service area; if that changes this section will need rewriting. The Rendon Volunteer Fire Department was dissolved on 1 April 2026 with Tarrant County Emergency Services District 1 assuming direct operation and full-time staffing; response times to interior acreage parcels remain longer than in a dense incorporated city and should be discussed with the district for a specific address. Southeast Connector cost and schedule reflect current state figures of approximately $2.3 billion and substantial completion in February 2028; earlier reporting cited a materially lower figure and scope, cost and schedule may change. Because Rendon addresses carry Burleson, Fort Worth and Mansfield mailing cities across three shared ZIP codes, commuting and employment figures keyed to a ZIP code describe a mixture of places and were excluded here in favour of figures produced for Rendon CDP specifically. This information is provided for general reference and is not a representation about any specific property, commute, road condition, emergency response time or future infrastructure outcome. Bobby Franklin, REALTOR®, TREC #0805459, Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team.
The first two answers are the most important on this page and most agents will not tell you either one. There is no zoning here, and no building permit is issued for a house. Everything else follows from having no city government at all.
No, and this is the single biggest risk of buying here. Texas counties generally have no zoning authority in unincorporated areas, and Tarrant County does not enforce zoning in Rendon.
Read what that means plainly. There is generally nothing stopping a neighbour from opening a welding shop, a truck or equipment yard, a kennel or a salvage operation on the land next to you. No hearing, no variance, no city council to appeal to.
The only real protection is private: deed restrictions recorded on that particular subdivision, or an owners' association covenant. The county has explicitly said it has no authority over deed restrictions — they are enforced by property owners, not government.
So read the deed restrictions on the exact tract before you buy. In Rendon they are not a formality. They are the whole of your land-use protection.
Another answer that surprises people. Tarrant County does not issue building permits for single-family homes, does not issue certificates of occupancy, and does not perform residential inspections.
What does apply: a new home must be built to the International Residential Code, and a builder constructing for resale must file a Notice of Residential Construction and obtain third-party inspections, with failure to do so a criminal offence. An owner building a home to live in is not subject to that filing.
Permits that are required: septic, floodplain work, commercial and multifamily construction through the county fire marshal, and platting — with Fort Worth also holding authority over subdivision here because Rendon sits in its extraterritorial jurisdiction.
The practical consequence for a buyer: nobody from a government inspected the house you are about to purchase. Pay for a thorough private inspection. This is not a corner to cut in Rendon.
There is no city hall, so here is the map.
Pothole on a county road — Tarrant County precinct road and bridge. On FM 1187, the state. Noise at midnight or a suspicious vehicle — Sheriff non-emergency on 817-884-1212. Fire or medical — 911, answered by the county emergency services district.
Junk vehicle, unpermitted structure, a business next door, a property nuisance — mostly nobody, because there is no zoning and no county code compliance officer doing city-style enforcement.
And one that catches people out: Tarrant County has no leash law and no county-run shelter for dogs and cats. For a dangerous animal or a bite, call the Sheriff. For nuisance wildlife, a private company or state parks and wildlife.
Not without your consent, and the law changed to make that so. A 2017 act ended unilateral annexation in large counties including Tarrant, and a 2019 act ended most unilateral annexation across the whole state. Annexation is now generally consent-based, by petition or vote of the affected owners.
So the honest answer is that Fort Worth cannot simply take Rendon, even though Rendon sits inside its extraterritorial jurisdiction.
If it ever happened with consent, you would gain city services and add a City of Fort Worth property tax line you currently pay nothing toward, plus city zoning, codes and permitting.
The best on this site, because there is no city line. About 1.71 percent combined for the Mansfield ISD portion.
| Entity | Rate |
|---|---|
| Mansfield ISD | 1.1469 |
| Tarrant County | 0.1862 |
| Hospital district | 0.1650 |
| College district | 0.1123 |
| Emergency services district | 0.0743 |
| Water district | 0.0265 |
Before exemptions that is roughly $6,845 a year on a $400,000 home and $8,556 on a $500,000 one. Against Kennedale at 2.32 percent you save about $2,435 and $3,044 respectively; against Mansfield at 2.24 percent, about $2,115 and $2,644.
Note the emergency services district line. It is easy to miss when comparing against an incorporated city, but it applies here and is included above.
Yes, materially, and this catches buyers out. Rendon splits across three districts with three different rates.
Mansfield ISD is 1.1469, Everman ISD 1.2268 and Burleson ISD 1.2552. So the combined rate above applies only to the Mansfield-served part; the others run higher.
On a $500,000 home that gap is roughly $400 a year for Everman and $542 for Burleson against Mansfield. Since school tax is about two thirds of your bill here, the street you choose sets both your schools and a meaningful part of your payment.
Good news on several fronts. The state school homestead exemption rose to $140,000, and both Tarrant County and the hospital district have adopted local homestead exemptions at the 20 percent maximum.
Those reduce your effective rate well below the headline 1.71 percent. File form 50-114 with the Tarrant Appraisal District — it is free, and the general deadline is 30 April.
There is no city exemption to chase here, for the obvious reason.
Almost everything here is on private septic, and it deserves real attention. The state sets the rules and Tarrant County Public Health permits and inspects.
Key facts: a permit is required for any new system or repair, and the residential application fee is $260. As of November 2025 the county requires lots of at least one acre for new single-family subdivisions on septic.
Aerobic systems are common here because many local soils will not support a conventional drain field — and state rules require an aerobic system to be under a maintenance contract with a licensed provider, renewed annually.
Costs run a few hundred for an inspection and into the thousands or low tens of thousands to replace. And the part that matters at closing: a failed or non-compliant system can absolutely kill a sale or a loan. Get the permit records and get it inspected.
Bethesda Water Supply Corporation, which is not a utility company but a member-owned nonprofit run by a board elected by its members, serving over 10,100 of them since 1965. You become a member rather than a customer.
Rates from March 2026: a $22 monthly minimum with no usage included, then $4.50 per thousand gallons up to ten thousand, rising in tiers above that. Read your own meter and submit it on time and you save $3.
Starting service needs proof of ownership. Transfers are $15, reinstatement $150, and a temporary account runs $50 a month until requirements are met. The critical number for anyone building is the tap and meter fee, which is quoted case by case and can run into the thousands on acreage. Call before you buy land, not after.
On reliability: a boil water notice was issued for Rendon on 26 August 2024 after an equipment failure dropped system pressure, and rescinded the next day. Good service, but not city-scale redundancy.
Yes, and this is a genuine advantage Rendon has over neighbouring Kennedale, which is largely ineligible. Much of Rendon falls in a USDA Rural Development eligible area, meaning zero down payment and no monthly mortgage insurance in the conventional sense.
Three things to check. The property — eligibility is address-specific and about 84 percent of Tarrant County is ineligible, so verify the exact parcel on the USDA map. Your income — the moderate-income limit runs around $112,450 for a one to four person household. The fees — a 1.0 percent upfront guarantee fee and a 0.35 percent annual fee.
Worth a conversation with a lender who actually writes these. Not every loan officer does.
Tarrant County Emergency Services District 1, formed in 1996, which funds and provides fire and ambulance service to roughly 50,000 residents and 25,000 structures across about 183 square miles of unincorporated Tarrant County.
The headline change sounds worse than it is. The Rendon Volunteer Fire Department, organised in 1954, was dissolved in April 2026 and the district took over directly — converting the station to full-time county staffing as station 770 and adding an ambulance to strengthen southern county coverage.
Volunteers to full-time crews is an improvement, not a loss. That said, this is nearly twenty-five square miles of acreage, so response to an interior parcel will never match a dense suburb.
The Tarrant County Sheriff's Office, which covers every unincorporated area in a county spanning more than 860 square miles. Non-emergency 817-884-1212, dispatch 817-884-1213, and 911 for anything urgent.
Be realistic about what that means. Deputies patrol an enormous rural area, so non-emergency response can take considerably longer than in a city with its own police force. Most people here factor that into how they secure a property.
There is no municipal trash service, and no collection day. You subscribe privately with a hauler that serves unincorporated Tarrant County, or you haul it yourself. Subscription is not mandatory — it is on you to arrange.
Providers serving the area include Sundance Disposal Solutions, with on-call junk and bulk services available separately. Costs vary by route.
For household hazardous waste — paint, chemicals, batteries, electronics — Tarrant County residents can use the Fort Worth environmental collection centre free with a county voucher. That one is genuinely useful and underused.
Because Rendon has no post office of its own. Addresses here carry Burleson 76028, Fort Worth 76140 or Mansfield 76063 depending on the route, and all three are shared with those actual cities.
The trap is important. A mailing city is not a governing city. If your envelope says Burleson, you are still not a Burleson resident — you cannot use Burleson's trash service, its library, its parks, its permits desk or its police.
You are governed by Tarrant County. And any statistic you read keyed to one of those ZIP codes is describing a mixture of places, not Rendon.
Electricity is deregulated, so you pick a retail provider, with Oncor delivering the power and handling outages regardless of who bills you.
Gas is the rural surprise: much of Rendon has no natural gas main and runs on propane delivered by private suppliers. Confirm which a specific property uses, because a propane tank and delivery contract is a different arrangement entirely.
Internet is partially built out. Fibre reaches parts of Rendon, cable reaches others, and fixed wireless or satellite fills the rest. Availability varies sharply street by street, so check the exact address rather than the town.
Three districts, decided by address. Mansfield ISD covers the east, Burleson ISD the south, Everman ISD the northwest edge.
Mansfield and Burleson are both rated B; Everman is rated a full grade lower. Mansfield also charges the lowest rate of the three, which is an unusual alignment of better and cheaper.
Verify by address through each district's own lookup tool before you offer — two homes on the same road can be in different districts.
Mansfield, about fifteen to twenty-five minutes east, and the options are good for a rural area.
Methodist Mansfield Medical Center at 2700 East Broad Street is a 294-bed acute care hospital with a Level III advanced trauma centre and a round-the-clock emergency department. Texas Health Hospital Mansfield at 2300 Lone Star Road is a 59-bed hospital designated Level IV trauma, opened in December 2020.
More emergency and urgent care sits in Burleson and Fort Worth. Nothing is in Rendon itself, so know your route before you need it.
Rendon sits in the Cross Timbers and Fort Worth Prairie transition, which is generally kinder to foundations than the Blackland clay under the Dallas County suburbs — but parts of Tarrant County carry expansive clay with real shrink and swell, and the soil varies tract by tract across nearly twenty-five square miles.
Do not generalise from the town to your lot. Check the specific parcel and get a foundation-aware inspection.
On water: Village Creek and its tributaries drain this part of the county, and floodplain development requires a county permit. Flood status is an address question, so run the parcel through the federal flood map. Standard homeowners insurance does not cover flood.
This is North Texas, so hail and severe wind claims are common and shape your insurance premium. Ask what the hail deductible actually is and factor roof age into any offer.
The rural-specific one people forget: grass and brush fire risk is genuinely elevated here in drought, which is exactly why the emergency services district keeps brush trucks at the Rendon station.
Worth asking your insurer about the fire protection rating at your specific address too — on a rural property, distance to the station and to a water source affects your premium.
Very little, and it is better to know that now. No city park, no library, no recreation centre, no farmers market and no downtown, because there has never been a town.
The only two recurring annual public events are run by a church — Retta Baptist on Rendon Road, which has been here since 1914.
What Rendon does have is two barbecue joints people drive across the state for, a butcher running since 1956, and a feed store. For everything else you drive: Burleson west, Mansfield east, Fort Worth north.
Longer than the map suggests, because no freeway touches Rendon. The nearest interstate access is roughly six to eight miles west, so every trip starts on a county road.
Residents average 31.9 minutes to work, against a metro figure of 27.9 — the second longest in this project.
The reason is that almost nobody works here. Rendon loses about 30 percent of its population during the working day and only about 14 percent of workers both live and work in the community. There is no transit of any kind, so plan on a vehicle per driver.
Eight things, and I would rather you hear them from me.
No zoning, so no protection from what a neighbour builds. No building permit or inspection on the house you are buying. Private septic, with its maintenance contract, replacement cost and closing risk. County-maintained roads, some of them gravel. No transit and a long commute. Almost no public events, parks or library. Slower sheriff response than a city force. And three mailing cities that confuse everyone including your own paperwork.
Against that: roughly $3,000 a year less in tax than Kennedale on a $500,000 home, USDA zero-down eligibility, acreage you cannot buy inside a city limit, no PID or MUD, and nobody telling you what to do with your own land.
That is the trade. It suits a specific kind of buyer extremely well and the wrong buyer not at all.
Question not answered here? Send me an address and I will tell you which school district it is in, what the tax bill looks like, whether it qualifies for USDA, and what the deed restrictions actually say.
Call 214-228-0003Answers observed September 2026. Rendon is an unincorporated census designated place with no municipal government, so nothing here should be read as describing a city administration; services are provided by Tarrant County, special districts, a member-owned water corporation and private contractors. Tax figures are computed from adopted rates for a Rendon property in Mansfield ISD, shown before exemptions, and are illustrations rather than quotes; rates reset annually and a property in Everman or Burleson ISD will pay more. Comparisons use 2.32 percent for Kennedale and 2.24 percent for Mansfield. The statement that Texas counties generally lack zoning authority in unincorporated areas reflects state law and Tarrant County's own published guidance; it is not legal advice, and deed restrictions, plat notes and any owners' association covenants on a specific tract should be reviewed by a qualified professional before purchase. Building, septic, floodplain and platting requirements are summarised and were current when observed; confirm directly with Tarrant County for a specific project, and note that Fort Worth holds subdivision authority here through its extraterritorial jurisdiction. Septic costs are market estimates rather than quoted prices. Water rates, membership fees and particularly the tap and meter fee for new construction should be confirmed directly with Bethesda Water Supply Corporation, which quotes connection costs case by case and does not publish them. USDA eligibility is parcel-specific and subject to household income limits; verify the exact address on the official USDA map and confirm current limits with an approved lender, as published income figures vary between sources. Several items could not be fully verified and are flagged rather than guessed: Tarrant County precincts were redrawn in 2025 and the commissioner, justice of the peace and constable precinct serving a specific Rendon address should be confirmed by address rather than assumed, and an official notice stating the exact day of the April 2026 fire service transition was not located, so that date is approximate. Soil conditions vary considerably across the community and no general description substitutes for a parcel-level check and a foundation inspection. School district, floodplain status, water provider, septic status and internet availability must all be verified by address. Because Rendon addresses carry Burleson, Fort Worth and Mansfield mailing cities across three shared ZIP codes, services and statistics listed under those cities frequently do not apply to Rendon, and Rendon residents cannot use a neighbouring city's municipal services. Nothing here is legal, tax, insurance, environmental or lending advice. Bobby Franklin, REALTOR®, TREC #0805459, Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team.
Every other town on this site has a city to ring. Rendon has Tarrant County, two special districts, a member-owned water corporation and private contractors. This directory is organised around that reality, and the purple cards mark everything that simply does not exist here.
Not a utility company — a member-owned nonprofit serving over 10,100 members since 1965. You join rather than sign up. Bring the warranty deed. Building? Ask for the tap and meter quote first; on acreage it runs into the thousands.
817-295-2131 509 S Burleson Blvd, Burleson · $22/mo minimum Do this firstTarrant County Public Health permits every on-site system. Pull the permit records for your property before closing and get the system inspected — a failed one can stop a sale. Residential application fee $260.
817-212-7082 Engineering 817-884-1250 Do this firstFree, form 50-114, deadline generally 30 April. Worth more here than most places: the school exemption is now $140,000 and both the county and hospital district grant 20 percent.
817-284-0024 2500 Handley-Ederville Rd, Fort Worth Do this firstTwo jobs nobody does for you. Electricity is deregulated, so choose a retailer; Oncor delivers regardless. And there is no municipal trash — you must arrange a private hauler yourself.
powertochoose.org Oncor outages 888-313-4747 Your governmentThis is your local government — there is no other. 100 East Weatherford Street, Fort Worth. Rendon sits in Commissioner Precinct 2, though precincts were redrawn in 2025 so confirm by address.
817-884-1111 Law enforcementNo city police here. Deputies cover every unincorporated area across a county of more than 860 square miles, so expect longer non-emergency response than a city force.
817-884-1212 Non-emergency · dispatch 817-884-1213 · 911 urgent Fire & EMSCovers about 183 square miles and 50,000 residents. Took over Rendon directly in April 2026, converting the station to full-time staffing as station 770 and adding an ambulance. Funded by the 0.0743 line on your tax bill.
682-463-7215 Station 770 · 4300 Burleson Retta Rd RoadsYour local roads are the county's, not a city's. The facility serving this area sits at 800 East Rendon-Crowley Road, Burleson. FM 1187 is the state's, not the county's.
817-615-4050 DevelopmentHandles platting, floodplain permits and the fire code permits required for commercial and multifamily work. No residential building permit is issued here — see the FAQ above.
817-884-1250 Fire marshal 817-838-4660 · floodplain 817-884-1153 RecordsDeeds, and critically the recorded deed restrictions on your subdivision — which in an unincorporated area are your only land-use protection. Also septic affidavits and vital records.
tarrantcountytx.gov Tax officeProperty tax payment and vehicle registration. Nearest substation is the Southwest Subcourthouse, 6551 Granbury Road, Fort Worth.
817-370-4535 General 817-884-1100 Before you buyVillage Creek and its tributaries drain this area and floodplain development needs a county permit. Address-level question, and standard insurance does not cover flood.
msc.fema.gov Real advantageMuch of Rendon qualifies for zero-down USDA financing, unlike neighbouring Kennedale. Check the exact parcel — roughly 84 percent of Tarrant County is ineligible. Income capped around $112,450 for a smaller household.
eligibility.sc.egov.usda.gov TrashNo city service, no collection day, and subscribing is entirely up to you. Sundance Disposal serves unincorporated Tarrant County; on-call junk and bulk services are separate.
Subscription required UnderusedPaint, chemicals, batteries and electronics go to the Fort Worth environmental collection centre, and for county residents it is free with a voucher. Genuinely worth knowing.
tarrantcountytx.gov Internet & gasFibre reaches parts of Rendon, cable others, wireless and satellite the rest — availability changes street by street. And much of Rendon has no gas main and runs on propane from private suppliers.
Verify by address Schools · EastServes eastern Rendon and includes Tarver-Rendon Elementary. Rated B, and the lowest school rate of the three at 1.1469. Feeds Mansfield Legacy High School.
mansfieldisd.org Schools · SouthServes southern Rendon around lower Oak Grove Road. Rated B, feeding Burleson Centennial. Highest school rate of the three at 1.2552.
burlesonisd.net Schools · NorthwestServes the northwestern edge. Rated a full grade below the other two, at a rate of 1.2268 — higher than Mansfield. Verify carefully if schools matter to you.
eisd.org Not in Rendon2700 East Broad Street, Mansfield. 294 beds with a Level III advanced trauma centre and a 24-hour emergency department. Fifteen to twenty-five minutes east.
Emergency 911 Not in Rendon2300 Lone Star Road, Mansfield. A 59-bed hospital designated Level IV trauma, opened December 2020. The second option east.
Poison control 1-800-222-1222 Does not existWorth knowing before you get a dog. Tarrant County has no leash law and no county shelter for dogs and cats. Dangerous animals or bites go to the Sheriff; nuisance wildlife to a private company or state parks and wildlife.
Sheriff 817-884-1213 Wildlife 817-831-3128 Does not existThere is no city government, no municipal court, no code compliance office, no city permits desk, no parks department and no public library belonging to Rendon. Every one of those is a county function or does not exist.
County 817-884-1111 The mailing trapRendon addresses read Burleson 76028, Fort Worth 76140 or Mansfield 76063. That is postal routing, not government. You cannot use those cities' trash, libraries, parks, permits or police.
You are governed by the county Not in RendonNo office here. Nearest driver licence offices are in Burleson, Fort Worth and Arlington; book an appointment rather than turning up. 90 days for a licence, 30 to register a vehicle.
dps.texas.gov New to TexasThrough Tarrant County Elections. You vote for county commissioners, the sheriff, school boards and the emergency services district area — but there is no city council election, because there is no city.
votetexas.gov PropertyThe state's plain-language guide to homestead, over-65, disabled and veteran exemptions, including the increases voters approved in November 2025.
comptroller.texas.gov Septic rulesSets the rules your septic system must follow, including the requirement that an aerobic system stay under a maintenance contract with a licensed provider. Budget for that annually.
tceq.texas.gov Not in RendonNearest campuses are Southeast in Arlington and South in Fort Worth. You pay the college district's 0.1123 line on your tax bill either way.
817-515-8223 Community13201 Rendon Road, organised 1914. In a community with no civic buildings, this church runs the only two recurring annual public events in Rendon and functions as the closest thing to a town centre.
On Rendon Rd Local newsNo local paper exists for an unincorporated community. Coverage comes from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the Fort Worth Report and KERA, usually only when something notable happens.
fortworthreport.orgLinks, phone numbers and addresses verified September 2026 and subject to change; if something has moved, tell me and I will correct it. Rendon is an unincorporated census designated place with no municipal government, so there is no city hall, city website, city council, municipal court, city permits or code compliance office, city police department, city utility billing, city parks department or public library; every service below is provided by Tarrant County, a special district, a member-owned water corporation or a private contractor. Critically, a Rendon resident cannot use the services of Burleson, Fort Worth or Mansfield simply because their mailing address carries that city's name — those cities' trash collection, libraries, parks, permit desks and police serve their own residents only. Several items could not be fully verified and are flagged rather than guessed: Tarrant County precincts were redrawn in 2025, so the commissioner, road and bridge facility, justice of the peace and constable precinct serving a specific Rendon address should be confirmed by address rather than assumed; an official notice stating the exact day of the April 2026 fire service transition was not located; and Bethesda Water Supply Corporation does not publish its new-membership fee or its tap and meter fee for new construction, quoting both case by case, so call before relying on any figure. USDA eligibility is parcel-specific and income-limited and published income figures vary between sources, so verify the exact address on the official map and confirm current limits with an approved lender. Septic costs are market estimates rather than quoted prices, and building, platting and floodplain requirements should be confirmed directly with Tarrant County for a specific project, noting that Fort Worth holds subdivision authority here through its extraterritorial jurisdiction. Because Texas counties generally lack zoning authority in unincorporated areas, recorded deed restrictions are the primary land-use protection on a Rendon property and should be reviewed by a qualified professional before purchase. School district, water provider, septic status, floodplain status, internet availability and gas versus propane must all be verified by address. Listings are provided for general reference and are not endorsements; I receive no compensation from any organisation named. Bobby Franklin, REALTOR®, TREC #0805459, Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team.
Everything on this page was researched, verified and written here. The lack of zoning is explained rather than buried. The absence of a building permit on the house you are buying is stated outright. And where the record could not be confirmed, that is shown instead of quietly filled in.
In an incorporated city, zoning protects you. Rendon has none — Texas counties generally cannot zone unincorporated land, and Tarrant County does not. Which means the recorded deed restrictions on that specific subdivision are the only thing standing between your back fence and a truck yard, a welding shop or a kennel. Most agents will hand you a survey and a disclosure. I pull the recorded restrictions and read them, and I tell you plainly what they do and do not prohibit before you write.
This surprises almost every buyer. Tarrant County does not issue a building permit for a single-family home here, does not issue a certificate of occupancy, and does not perform residential inspections. No government official ever looked at the construction. On top of that the property is almost certainly on private septic, where a failed system can stop a closing outright. So we budget for a serious inspection, we pull the septic permit records, and we do not skip either.
Rendon splits across Mansfield, Burleson and Everman school districts, and the street decides. That sets your child's high school and roughly two thirds of your tax bill at once. On a $500,000 home the gap runs up to $542 a year between districts, and the best-rated one is also the cheapest. I check the district, the parcel and the rate before we tour — not after you have fallen for a kitchen.
Rendon suits a specific buyer superbly and the wrong one badly. If the commute will grind you down, if the road to the house worries me, if the septic or the floodplain on that particular lot does not add up, or if you actually want a town with parks and a library and a Fourth of July parade — you will hear it from me before you hear it from an inspector. I would rather lose the commission than sell you the wrong life.
Get the septic inspected and pull its permit history — an aerobic system needs an annual maintenance contract and replacement runs into the thousands. Second, if you are buying land to build, get the water tap and meter quote from Bethesda before you close; they price it case by case and on acreage it can run into the thousands. Third, check USDA eligibility on the exact parcel — much of Rendon qualifies for zero-down financing where neighbouring Kennedale does not, and that is real money. Fourth, drive the road to the house in bad weather, because county maintenance is a different standard and some lanes are gravel. Fifth, verify the school district by address, since two homes on one road can sit in different ones. And sixth, confirm gas versus propane and internet availability at that specific address — both change street by street out here.
Ask all three about USDA specifically, because not every loan officer writes them and in Rendon it can mean zero down with no monthly mortgage insurance. Also tell them the tax rate is about 1.71 percent rather than a metro average, and that the property is on septic — both change the escrow figure. I recommend these lenders based on their expertise and service. I do not receive compensation for referrals.
Either is fine. I answer my own phone, and there is no version of this where you get routed to a call centre or handed to a junior agent. Send me an address and I will tell you which school district it is in, what the tax bill looks like, whether it qualifies for USDA, and what the deed restrictions actually say.
Bobby Franklin, REALTOR® · Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team · 214-228-0003 · northtexasmarketinsider.com
Information on this page is provided for general reference and is not legal, tax, insurance, environmental or lending advice. Rendon is an unincorporated census designated place with no municipal government; services come from Tarrant County, special districts, a member-owned water corporation and private contractors, and a Rendon resident cannot use the municipal services of Burleson, Fort Worth or Mansfield despite carrying one of those mailing addresses across three shared ZIP codes. Because Texas counties generally lack zoning authority in unincorporated areas, recorded deed restrictions are the primary land-use protection on a Rendon property and should be reviewed by a qualified professional before purchase; the statement that a particular use is or is not prohibited depends entirely on the restrictions recorded against that specific tract. Tarrant County does not issue building permits or certificates of occupancy for single-family homes in unincorporated areas and does not perform residential inspections, which is why an independent inspection is strongly recommended; septic, floodplain, platting and commercial construction requirements do apply and should be confirmed directly with the county, noting that Fort Worth holds subdivision authority here through its extraterritorial jurisdiction. Tax illustrations use adopted rates for a Rendon property in Mansfield ISD, are shown before exemptions and reset annually; a property served by Everman or Burleson ISD will pay more. USDA Rural Development eligibility is parcel-specific and subject to household income limits, and published income figures vary between sources; verify the exact address on the official USDA map and confirm current limits with an approved lender before relying on zero-down financing. Water connection and tap fees are quoted case by case by Bethesda Water Supply Corporation and are not published. Septic costs are market estimates rather than quotes. Rendon is a very small and highly varied market of roughly eight to twelve closings a month, spanning manufactured homes to seven-figure acreage, so no median describes it and no figure on this site substitutes for a comparative market analysis on a specific property. School district, water provider, septic status, floodplain status, road maintenance, gas versus propane and internet availability must all be verified by address. Soil conditions vary across the community and no general description substitutes for a foundation inspection. Confirm anything specific to an address before acting on it. School information is not a recommendation regarding any school, district, neighbourhood or property. All real estate services are provided through Legacy Realty Group. Equal Housing Opportunity.
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